supernumerary

Noun

(plural supernumeraries)

A civil designation for somebody who works in a group, association or public office, without forming part of the regular staff; those distinguished from numerary. (For example, supernumerary judges are those who help the regular judges when there is a surplus amount of work.)

Sentence Examples

And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception.

The support you receive through your mentor is part of your supernumerary status in the clinical setting.

Trainees in job shares were as satisfied with their training as those in supernumerary posts or in full-time training.

We then joined the supernumerary members of the expedition on an adjacent slag heap, over which the UFO was said to have hovered.